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'Tis the season for critter ornaments, an ornate lifesize dollhouse and a 2,000-foot railroad at Brandywine River Museum's beloved season-long Christmas celebration. (Photo courtesy Brandywine River Museum)

The Brandywine River Museum is celebrating the holiday season with its annual Brandywine Christmas display, now through January 8.

This year is the debut of life-long doll collector Ann Wyeth McCoy’s dollhouse, measuring 8 x 10 feet and standing 9½ feet high, its rooms filled with Mrs. McCoy’s antique dolls and hundreds of miniature furnishings.

A Brandywine Christmas isn’t complete without its traditional critter ornaments, a three-decades-old tradition at the museum. The ornaments are hand-crafted starting in March by 120 volunteers from plants, seeds and other natural materials.

Don’t miss the annual Critter Sale on December 3-4; all proceeds benefit the Volunteers’ Art Purchase Fund, which has added more than 200 paintings, drawings, and prints to the museum’s holdings since 1975.

In addition, you can check out the popular O-gauge model train display covering 2,000 feet of track and comprised of 150 locomotives and 300 freight cars dating from 1915 to the present. The cars wind past a village, stone quarry, oil refinery, mountains, a Herr Foods plant and running waterfall, as Santa and his sleigh fly overhead.

Catch the train in action right here.

“A Brandywine Christmas” is free with museum admission.

A Brandywine Christmas
Where: Brandywine River Museum, 100 Creek Road, Chadds Ford
When: Now-January 8
Cost: Adults $10; Seniors (65+), students and children 6-12 $6; Free for children under 6
More info: www.brandywinemuseum.org